This paper considers how specific the Chinese growth experience is in the convergence debate. It shows the location of … China within the cross-country relations of (absolute and conditional) convergence and its move since the transition period …. Then it evidences a cross-province relation of convergence within China, stronger if this is conditional than absolute …

In this paper, we propose a new concept of convergence which is based on the metric entropy measure recently proposed … by Granger et al. (2004) to investigate economic convergence in China. This entropy measure compares whole distributions … of growth rates across individual provinces. Separately, based on this same entropy measure, we also implement cluster …

Since the mid-2000s, the center of gravity of China's economic growth has shifted from the coastline to the inland and … convergence process which has been at work in manufacturing industry since the end of the 1990s and suggests that China is …